'One can become American but one can never become English'

'Sayeeda Warsi is a textbook lesson of what happens when you promote someone too fast, too early and for the wrong reasons'

'I'm a cyclist, not a cycho. Go ahead, hyperventilate: I jump the red light'

'A widow of the Munich Olympic massacre asked Jacques Rogge if he would have refused to commemorate the victims if they had not been Israelis. "difficult question," he replied